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title: The UAE's judicial system is derived from the civil law system and S… — United Arab Emirates · tree and pragmatics
description: The UAE's judicial system is derived from the civil law system and Sharia law. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Arab Emirates» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Arab Emirates, sentence 281

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From Wikipedia, [«United Arab Emirates»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The UAE's judicial system is derived from the civil law system and Sharia law.

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**What happens:** derive · **To what, where:** judicial system, civil law system

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Arab Emirates». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:United_Arab_Emirates:281
# text = The UAE's judicial system is derived from the civil law system and Sharia law.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UAE	UAE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Sharia	Sharia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | present · passive |  | the UAE's judicial system |  | the civil law system and Sharia law |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from system=Material |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «United Arab Emirates», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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